Bed and wall pocket



Jan. 31, 1928.

E. COLLITON BED AND WALL POCKET Filed 001:. 2. 1926 m M w i .r 7v V 6 my M m m m 4 A? Q m M 4 mm L 1 Patented Jan. 31, 1928.

1,657,790 PATENT OFFICE.

f taxman coLL'IroN, or sr. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

1 'BEDAND WALL POCKET.

Application filed October 2,-1926. Serial No. 139,194.

invention" relates to a device which may be most aptly designated a hospital bed pocket though it is also useful in any bed room. It consists of an improved bag or 8 sack in which to store slippers, shoes, collars,

cayi s and any other garments.

he pocket is especially designed to be supported at the end of a bed but it may also be .secured'on a wall. In either case it is 10 readily removable from its support and the bag readily removed from the metal parts by which it is suspended and held in position.

In the accompanying drawing: a Fig. 1 is a top View of the invention shown as attached to a bedstead the bag shown as attached in place.

' Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sect-ion on the line 3-3 in Fig.

10 2, the bag dotted only.

30 having a closed bottom 11 and a normally open top 12. The top edge is hemmed in such a way that the greater portion of it comprises a horizontal channel or tube adapted to be slipped upon a horizontal ar- 35 ran ed U-shaped metal bar or bail 14, and

slightly lower down a smaller part of said channel or tube is adapted to receive a straight supporting bar 16 having at one end screw threads 17 and at the other end a suitable thumb catch 18 by which to turn the rod. Said rod is inserted in bearings 19 provided on a flat frame bar 20 adapted to be supported by bendable hooks 21 which may fit over the top rail 22 or some other bar of a bedstead 23. The frame may have screws as 24 in Fig. 4 passed through holes 25 (shown in Fig. 2) and screwed into a wall or other fixed element 26 (shown in Fig. 4).

In Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 the flat frame 20 and the bearings 19 are made integral, the plate having near each bearing a forwardly struck bulge 27 having in its lower side a notch 28 receiving the end of one of the arms of the bail 14 so that the arms can notswing laterally nor can they slide across the bar 15 because they each'have. a notc'h 29 straddling I said bar. The arms may have hooks as 30 in Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 engaging the terminal edge 31 of the notches. Sliding of the arm may be prevented by providing a hole, as 32 in: Fig. 6, for the bar 15. Also, where the arm is engaged by the bulge 27, as at 31 in Fig. 6, there may be neither the notch 29 nor the hole 32, but the arm may be resting on the bar 15, as in Fig. 7. In the modification in Fig. 5 the bail 14 may be made of round wire and have loops 33 encircling the bar 15.

In Fig. 8 is shown that the plate or fiat frame. bar 20 may be of wood and securedby screws 34 to a wall or post or may have hooks similar to those shown as 21 in other views. When such wood strip is used thebearings 19 are stamped or cast of metal and secured to the wood by screws or rivets 35 or other suitable means and the arms 14 may extend sufficiently into the cavities 36 in thewood to engage the upper edge of a hole 37 in the angular portion 20 of each bearing without giving said portions the bulge 27.

When so desired the removable bar 15 may simply have its ends resting in U-shaped bearings as 38 in Fig. 4 secured or provided in any suitable manner on the frame arms or brackets 19, which in the preferred type has been called the bearings, and in a sense they are bearings also in Fig. 4.

In Fig. 3 is indicated that above the loop 13 the cloth may have a second upright loop or-tubular portion 39 partly as a finish and partly as a cover when folded inwardly over the pocket opening.

In the use of the pocket the hooks 21 being resilient may be adjusted to a fair fit over the top rail of any bed end, and when not in use they may be folded down at their pivot point 40 and also sprung or bent away from the wall when the frame is to be secured by screws as 24 to a wall.

The cloth or canvas is readily removable from the frame for washing, and when the device is to be shipped or stored away its parts are readily knocked down and folded up into a small space. i

The general advantages and use of the device'have been disclosed in the first two paragraphs of this specification.

I claim:

1. In a hanger for a bag having a circular pocket at its mouth and two openings in said pocket forming a long and a short pocket section, a bail shaped bar inserted in the long pocket with its ends protruding therefrom, a straight secondary bar insertible in the shorter pocket and projecting with both ends therefrom, a fiat frame bar adapted to be fixed on a rigid element and having means engaged by said bail and the secondary bars simultaneously for suspending the bag, with its pocket opening in approximately horizontal plane.

2. The structure specified in claim 1, and

means on said frame bar engaged by the extremities of the protruding bail parts, said flat frame bar having projecting end parts with hearing means for the secondary rod arranged to support said rod parallel to the flat frame bar, said protruding parts of the bail adapted to rest on said secondary rod.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ELLEN COLLITON. 

